Author: Laurie Lyons-Makaimoku
Summer just got a whole lot sweeter -- and tipsier -- as some of the best in the Austin beverage business roll out Mighty Swell canned cocktails in Texas.
It would be easy to think that someone was filming a reboot of The Next Karate Kid in Austin, but nope, it’s just another day of keeping it weird.
It looks like local storage-finder company Sparefoot is jumping on the odd promo videos made in Austin train, and we’re pretty into it.
After opening 22 stores in the state of Texas and seven around the Austin area, it’s time for homegrown cookie-maker Tiff’s Treats to spread a little love outside of Texas’ borders.
Mayor Steve Adler’s office announced a new campaign today that will hopefully test the real world applications of his successful traffic campaign during President Obama’s visit during SXSW.
UT Austin has notched another honor onto its belt as college ranking site College Factual, in conjunction with USA Today College, just named the Moody College of Communication the #2 undergraduate journalism school in the country.
Keeping up with the latest news and happenings in a bustling city such as ours can be a challenge, but luckily we have social media to save us.
Yesterday the Austin Fire Department dealt with a somewhat unusual situation with results that probably shouldn’t surprise any Austinite.
I’ve got a theory that Joss Whedon may have enjoyed his recent trip to Austin, and local folk musician Shawnee Kilgore has the proof on her Instagram.
This morning we were happy to learn that the doors at 2015 East Riverside Drive are nearly ready to open again, as Grizzly Hall comes out of hibernation as a wonderfully dynamic venue for those looking to get away from downtown.
We got all that we expect from a GoT premiere -- death, drama, and gratuitous nudity. Here are just a few reactions about the premiere from Austinites:
We were sad to see that over the weekend Eater Austin shared the news that El Arroyo’s Far West location shut its doors.
This May voting cycle, which started today with early voting, cannot be over soon enough.
Austin was lucky enough to have witnessed one of Prince's amazing performances, during a no-cameras show at SXSW 2013. But now, you can watch it too!
Austin is no stranger to a diverse array of fun festivals, so much so that we have two “festival seasons” per year (you know, those two times of the year we aren’t baking-spring and long fall).
The plot thickens in the case of the Whole Foods cake incident, as the store has pulled surveillance footage that supports their claim that they did nothing wrong.
Tim League, one of Austin’s most beloved businessmen and founder of The Alamo Drafthouse, went on CNBC to talk movies and, surprisingly, Bernie Sanders.
If you were at Austin City Limits or Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2012, you have yet to forget the abundance of hot celebs around that year, thanks to Terrence Malick shooting a film during those festivals.
A Whole Foods customer, Pastor Jordan Brown, claims that the flagship store on North Lamar edited his cake order to include a slur against the LGBT community.
Lyft and Uber are certainly hot topics around Austin these days with the Prop 1 debate, but this weekend one of Austin’s ride sharing companies made news in a more hilarious way than usual.
The Austin Zoo welcomed two young kings of the jungle to their facility this week as Sango and Jelani, two Transvaal lions just arrived from Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo.
JetBlue wants to help cities go green this April to celebrate Earth Month, giving Austin the chance to win $50,000 for a new green space. The Green City Vote is part of the airline’s One Thing That’s Green initiative, an annual campaign that highlights their commitment to environmentalism and giving back to the community.
Becoming a journalist just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new program from The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin.
